Shorthand typist who coined the name...

GRACE SCURR, 93,

June 11, 1987

LONDON — GRACE SCURR, 93, shorthand typist who coined the name Filofax for the loose-leaf holders used for almost everything from notebook pages and world weather charts to subway maps and birdwatching checklists, died May 25. In 1921 Scurr suggested her employer, a London company of printers and stationers, manufacture personal filing systems instead of continuing to import them from the United States. The name Filofax was registered as a trademark in 1930. Since 1980 sales of the holders have grown from $230,000 to more than $10.4 million last year, earning a profit of more than $1.6 million. Scurr made little from the boom. She sold her 15 percent holding in the company in 1982 for about $2,500.